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Bribe Henry to leave store (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sop

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'bribe' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'henry to leave store' is the wordplay.
'henry' becomes 'op' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'leave' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'left of' mean this (the leftmost letter in the word)).
The first letter of 'store' is 's'.
'op' put after 's' is 'SOP'.

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(Other definitions for sop that I've seen before include "Appeasing gift" , "Piece of bread dipped in liquid, or a concession" , "Propitiatory offering" , "Bread dipped in gravy" , "Something of no great value given to appease" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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